The Department of Commerce’s Office of Textiles and Apparel reports that monthly imports of cotton, wool, manmade fiber, silk blend, and non-cotton vegetable fiber textile and apparel products totaled 6.22 billion square meter equivalents in January 2021, down 1.4 percent from December 2020 but up 9.3 percent from January 2020. Textile imports totaled 4.08 billion SME, down 7.7 percent for the month but up 20.9 percent from the previous year, while apparel imports of 2.13 billion SME were up 13.3 percent from December but down 7.7 percent from a year before.
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Overall Imports. For the year ending in January, imports were 67.9 billion SME, down 1.7 percent from the previous year. Textile imports rose 7.7 percent to 44.9 billion SME but apparel imports fell 16.2 percent to 23.0 billion SME.
Source Countries. OTEXA has reported the following statistics on textile and apparel imports from major source countries for January 2021.
|
Country
|
SME
|
Monthly change %
|
Annual change %
|
$ Value
|
Monthly change %
|
Annual change %
|
|
China
|
2.80 billion
|
-9.1
|
+13.3
|
2.18 billion
|
+4.3
|
-12.0
|
|
India
|
683.2 million
|
+9.5
|
+26.9
|
739.3 million
|
+18.7
|
+2.8
|
|
Vietnam
|
490.7 million
|
+19.4
|
-3.5
|
1.16 billion
|
+24.3
|
-17.0
|
|
Pakistan
|
274.8 million
|
-1.5
|
+5.4
|
304.6 million
|
+1.9
|
+16.7
|
|
Bangladesh
|
230.1 million
|
+21.7
|
-5.0
|
538.1 million
|
+41.7
|
-16.0
|
|
Mexico
|
207.3 million
|
-0.5
|
+5.0
|
284.5 million
|
-6.8
|
-6.3
|
|
Korea
|
144.1 million
|
-14.1
|
-23.0
|
67.3 million
|
-10.6
|
-16.0
|
|
Cambodia
|
135.8 million
|
+4.8
|
-2.5
|
268.3 million
|
+10.4
|
-16.0
|
|
Indonesia
|
131.0 million
|
+10.9
|
-14.0
|
296.8 million
|
+30.4
|
-33.0
|
|
Turkey
|
124.6 million
|
+0.4
|
+48.2
|
217.8 million
|
+14.2
|
+31.1
|
|
Canada
|
76.9 million
|
+5.6
|
-6.6
|
77.3 million
|
-0.4
|
-21.0
|
|
Israel
|
62.9 million
|
n/a
|
+87.5
|
$26.5 million
|
n/a
|
+50.1
|
|
Germany
|
51.2 million
|
n/a
|
+11.1
|
$37.6 million
|
n/a
|
+8.1
|
|
Honduras
|
50.5 million
|
-29.2
|
-17.0
|
139.7 million
|
-23.2
|
-9.9
|
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